“Accountability is attractive, and possession is the way you run away from victimhood.” What a soundbite.
Lukas Gage is on my display—as he so typically has been over the previous few years, together with his roles on all the things from Euphoria, You, and The White Lotus to Overcompensating, Street Home, and Smile 2. This time, nevertheless, he’s speaking to me: eye masks in place, laptop computer on his lap, and hair barely raveled—the latter in an I’m-just-vibing-at-home method, quite than within the someone-spent-20-minutes-fluffing-it model that Hollywood heartthrobs like him are likely to put on.
We’re discussing his new memoir, I Wrote This for Consideration, out October 14, although it looks like I’m FaceTiming a buddy. In full transparency, I’m not not: Gage and I’ve identified one another for a while now. We met just a few years in the past, whereas filming the ultimate episode of HBO Max’s Gossip Woman reboot. Gage was then simply breaking out, his buttocks having not too long ago gone viral after a scene in The White Lotus with Murray Bartlett.
On Gossip Woman, I used to be to interview Gage, who was enjoying himself, as he walked into the present’s model of the Met Gala. We had been launched exterior his trailer just a few moments earlier than strolling on to the set. I bear in mind an enthralling, chill, enjoyable man who advised me to chill out and warranted me I’d do nice. Don’t get too connected to the traces, he mentioned, “’trigger I received’t!” I listened and we had a enjoyable time.
Of all of the issues that made it into his memoir, our day collectively didn’t. However that’s truthful sufficient—Gage has lived a life. I Wrote This for Consideration is hilarious, painful, and reflective, masking his seek for a way of self as a younger homosexual boy, his relationship with medicine and ego, and at last coming into maturity. Above all, it’s a narrative of queer self-invention, of what it takes to make one thing of oneself.